On 25Sep2006 16:01, Dan Track <dan.track@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: | I have server that runs samba. I'm getting weird problems being | reported where some files are being randomly being changed. I don't | know what is changing them and reports are so irregular that I can't | say when it happens and which file will be affected. | | Is there a way to monitor files and log which process opens them? I | know there's lsof but I'm really looking for a way to log ALL files | opened over a 24 hour period? Try starting the samba service by hand, like this: strace -f -e trace=open .../smbd 2>/var/log/smb.strace.out This will produce quite alot of output. Since samba daemons come an go a little you may want to snapshot which daemon has which pid regularly: while : do date smbstatus sleep 60 done >>/var/log/smb.status.log & Then wait for damge, and backtrack: check the smb.strace.log for accesses to the file and then match that (there is a pid in the log) against your smbstatus log. Be sure to put the log files somewhere with plenty of disc space. Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ Learn from others' mistakes, you won't live long enough to make them all yourself. - a saying they tell to all new skydivers -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list